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>> The shape of a character depends on its neighbours: you cannot correctly draw text character-by-character. Well, for the languages used in newspapers for hu
by phkahler 3y ago
>> The shape of a character depends on its neighbours: you cannot correctly draw text character-by-character.
Well, for the languages used in newspapers for hundreds of years I'd say "sure you can". Just because we can do better than that with computers doesn't mean it's wrong.
Sure text rendering is very complex, but this is also a first world problem.
- yakubin 3y agoLigatures were used centuries before computers were a thing. How it was done on printing presses: <https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-ligature-letterpress-printing-blocks-image24494305 https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-ligature...>. Also, this problem applies more to countries outside of the first world.
- chris_wot 3y agoThat works great with Latin based scripts. Now try it with Indic scripts: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/indic-overview/ https://r12a.github.io/scripts/indic-overview/